He has two tumors on his heart. With that sentence you can see down the road. Make A Wish will not touch this because I guess it’s it is illegal just to be a hacker for good or some bs. I grew up in the era of where you could download a program, ie napster, limewire, icq and be on your way. I keep searching for good hackers but it seems like they have that rep of bad. Please help…Posting this in different communities to help out btw so don’t get jealous. Much love to all.

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    Ok, thing of it like this. You locked yourself out of your house. You need someone to unlock your front door to access your keys on the other side. Someone with special skills could come over and pick your lock, at your request, and that’s good. It’s a service being provided to you. Or maybe he doesn’t even charge. Maybe he just wants to do this for fun.

    Then there are other lock pickers in the world. Ones who would pick the lock of an empty house to steal their stuff. That’s bad. That’s not the same guy who came over and helped you.

    However, both are using the same skills. One for good, one for evil.

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    Assuming that the patient is looking for movie style “hacking”, look for a local Capture the Flag team, a lot of universities will have them.

    They could start with this: https://overthewire.org/

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      Go ahead and read them. Tired of getting questioned when all were for engagement and discourse. All that BS aside can you at least help out here? Or just want to give me shit?

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        But hold up. Are you just copying and posting posts from elsewhere? I cannot believe for one minute that you are a doctor or a nurse.

        I’m sure you know that I often interact with your posts, and up until this point I assumed you were a very curious, naive person, but if you’re just spamming random garbage or pretending to be people you aren’t, I don’t think the nature of our relationship can stay the same.

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          There’s a lot more professions than doctor or nurse where one might have a patient under their care. It’s also possible that OP meant charge instead of patient depending on if English is their first language.

          Plenty of doctors and nurses are naive or lacking in certain areas of “smarts”.

          OP has also had “I am a 40 year old traveling nurses who is a lesbian” in their profile for a while.

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          So your a doctor or a nurse? Go ahead…quit bating me you want me to looking through you history? See if you were ever on Reddit go through that history? Twitter facebook whatever. Your looking for a fight. I asked a question and you can’t even reply to help a 10 year old. I am not going to have this debate just trying to care about someone else. Also who is this we bs. I get this crap in every single post. I posted this in 3 communities to get more attention to it. You know what insult me all you want at least other people here care.

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            😂 I wasn’t talking about going through your post history. You’re 30% of all the posts in the communities you frequent! Reading my front page every day IS your post history. And I never claimed to have patients.

            Fine, maybe I’m wrong, you actually are a nurse and the only reason I was shook was because the image of you that I built in my mind was that of a 12 year old child, since all of your other posts read that way.

            If so, I’m sorry I ever doubted you.

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              I accept your appology. Not being a dick but you are more cordial than most. Much love to you

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        I’m sorry you got questioned instead of being helped here.

        For the record, I enjoy your thought-provoking posts. I might not agree with how some of it is phrased or whatever, but it almost always stirs conversation.

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    Depending where you are in the world https://www.hackerspaces.org/ could help but be aware that “hacker” means different things to different people.

    Even your local Linux user group may be able to run up a honeypot for the kid to learn how to “hack”. Anything beyond that an you start getting outside the scope of white hat hacking

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    What you want is called white-hat (as opposed to black-hat) hacking. You could also explore ethical hacking.

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      Not getting on to you but how do I explain the difference’s to a 10 year old and what does a white hate or black hat do? And where does one go to get a beginners book? Well I guess a website that starts from the floor to the top?? And is challenging?

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        A locksmith is white hat. They provide a service with the consent of the other party, and they might be compensated for it.

        A burglar is black hat.